Alyssa Blais, executive director of the Agape Centre, agrees that donations need to be healthier, but admits the centre isn't operationally ready to draw the line, yet.

"For now, we don't have a stance on KD, we'll accept it, but we are moving towards a healthier food policy," said Blais."It's not a judgment about the people who eat Kraft Dinner. We're trying to maximize nutritional value in terms of donations."

Over a year ago, the Agape Centre soup kitchen, which currently serves 120 meals a day, switched up its menu and discontinued dishes like KD and hot dogs.

"We changed to healthier food and more people came. Many of them wanted seconds because we're providing them with a highly nutritional meal," she said.

Roughly 35 baskets with three to five days worth of food are handed out daily at the Agape Centre

When deciding what to donate, Blais recommends following the Agape Centre's high-priority items list found on their website agapecentre.ca.

"If you're going to spend a few dollars on boxes of Kraft Dinner, please buy a bag of apples or donate the money instead," she said.

Thinking outside the grocery cart is another way to help feed the city.

Fresh produce grown in the Agape Centre's garden or donated by local farmers and greenthumbs have become the perfect ingredients in both the soup kitchen and food bank.

"If people are coming to the food bank it's because they're at the most critical moments of their life," said Blais. "We should be providing them with at least the most healthy and nutritional food possible."

To help clients eat healthy on a budget at home, free community cooking programs were also launched this summer.

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I honestly did not know the food banks accepted perishable food items. Good to know. I always thought you could only donate dry goods, canned goods and things like soap and toothpaste. I assumed they bought fresh food with cash donations. I found the direct link for the list of food items that you can donate: http://agapecentre.ca/take-action/what-food-to-donate/